This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Ashley Thuthao Keng Dam and Maythe Han can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2024/11/dining-with-dogs-more-than-human-relations-in-food-media/. About the post: Human and nonhuman lives may have first become closely entangled with the rise of agriculture as we raised animals to eat, and other animals that could help us manage the animals we raised to eat. However, the relationality between humans and animals expanded beyond that based on function and survival since the advent of agriculture. Today, we share our homes with them, and, as we will discuss in this post, our food and eating practices with them as valued members of more-than-human families, co-participating and co-producing our complex and ever-evolving cultures surrounding food.

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